Zero Home Presence Dotfiles

License

WTFPL

There are many like it, but this one is mine

This repository contains tools and configurations I use in the shell. It includes no graphical configurations, making it usable on servers and personal workstations. It has been battle-tested on macOS and various Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and even WSL.

I'm a big fan of the XDG Base Directory Specification and organize my dotfiles in a way that they don't clutter the $HOME directory. I have reduced the files required in $HOME to a single .zshenv; everything else goes under standard XDG paths or is launched via aliases. Additionally, if you have root permissions, you can install dotfiles with zero home presence.

Features

• Extensive Zsh configuration and plugins, including:
  • powerlevel10k prompt
  • additional completions
  • async autosuggestions plugin
  • syntax highlighting plugin
  • autoenv plugin
  • autopair plugin
  • clean Zsh implementation of z
• Vim configuration and plugins
• Neovim configuration and plugins
• Tmux configuration and plugins
• Other configurations:
  • Midnight Commander
  • ranger
  • quilt
  • Git
  • htop
• Handy utilities, including:
  • fzf
  • spark to draw bar charts right in the console
  • diff-so-fancy for a much better git diff layout
  • git-extras additional helpers for Git
• Environment wrappers for multiple programming languages:
  • goenv
  • jenv
  • luaenv
  • nodenv
  • phpenv
  • plenv
  • pyenv
  • rbenv

Installation

Warning

I'm in process on switching to Neovim. Vim configuration isn't maintained anymore, might be removed in future.

Requirements

• zsh version 5.9 or newer is strongly recommended
• git all external components are added as git submodules

Recommended

• make (optional: required to install git helpers)
• perl (optional: used by diff-so-fancy)
• fd (optional: will be used in fzf by default, if present)
• rg or ag (optional: will be used in fzf by default, if present)
• bat (optional: will be used in fzf by default, if present)

Location

Dotfiles can be installed in any directory, but probably somewhere under $HOME. Personally, I use $HOME/.local/dotfiles. The installation is simple:

git clone https://github.com/z0rc/dotfiles.git "$HOME/.local/dotfiles"
$HOME/.local/dotfiles/deploy.zsh
chsh -s /bin/zsh

The deployment script helps set up all required symlinks after the initial clone. It also adds a cron job to pull updates every midnight and serves as a post-merge git hook, so you don't have to worry about updating submodules after a successful pull.

Zero Home Presence

It's possible to install dotfiles without creating a ~/.zshenv symlink. To do so, set the environment variable ZDOTDIR to <installation dir>/zsh, e.g., $HOME/.local/dotfiles/zsh. This variable should be set very early in the login process, before zsh starts sourcing the user's .zshenv. One possible option is to add:

export ZDOTDIR="$HOME/.local/dotfiles/zsh"

into /etc/zsh/zshenv. Alternatively, you can set it with a PAM environment module.

Neovim Version

Neovim configuration is tested with latest released Neovim version only. At the moment of writing it's version 0.10.0.

Vim Version

Vim 9.1 or higher is required to support the XDG Base Directory Specification. To use all bundled vim plugins, install vim with Python and Ruby support built-in.

Configuration

Git Configuration

Update ~/.config/git/local/user with your email and name. It should look like this:

[user]
    email = jdoe@example.com
    name = John Doe

You can also add additional configurations in ~/.config/git/local/stuff.

Zsh Configuration

Note that Zsh configuration skips every global configuration file except /etc/zsh/zshenv.

You can add your local configuration into $ZDOTDIR/env.d/9[0-9]_* and $ZDOTDIR/rc.d/9[0-9]_*. The difference is that env.d is sourced always, while rc.d is sourced only in interactive sessions.

Additionally, $ZDOTDIR/.zlogin and $ZDOTDIR/.zlogout are available for modifications, though they are missing by default.

Neovim Configuration

Support of local configuration might be added in future.

Vim Configuration

Add your local configuration to $DOTFILES/vim/vimrc.local.

Local Paths

Local binaries can be placed in $HOME/.local/bin; it's added to PATH by default. Man pages can be placed in $XDG_DATA_HOME/man.

Lazy *env

Pyenv and similar wrappers are lazy-loaded, meaning they won't be initialized at shell start. Activation occurs on the first execution. Check the output of type -f pyenv in the shell and the implementation. Because of this, files like .python-version won't work as expected; it's recommended to use autoenv.zsh to explicitly activate the needed environment.

Ignore Config Files Changes Locally

Midnight Commander is quite volatile in terms of writing to its configuration file. Running mc with different screen sizes results in updating the panel size value in mc.ini. The same goes for htop.

To ignore local changes to configuration files, you can do:

git update-index --assume-unchanged configs/mc.ini

To restore git tracking of those files, use:

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged configs/mc.ini